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"With the recent development of nanoscale materials and assembly techniques, it is envisioned to build high-density computational systems in nanometer scale which have many advantages, such as area, power and speed, over current CMOS-based circuits and systems. High-density systems consisting of nanometer-scale elements are likely to have many imperfections; thus, defect-tolerance is considered as one of the most significant challenges. In this thesis. we evaluate a few repair algorithms for tolerating defective crosspoints in NanoFabric and estimate efficiency and cost-effectiveness of each algorithm. Also, for a given design and manufacturing environment, we propose a method to obtain the optimal solution by considering the area overhead, repair time overhead and reconfiguration cost"--Abstract, leaf iii.